Joy School Graduation :)

Shelbie had the cutest little preschool graduation today. As many of you know she has been attending "Joy School" this year and has learned about so many wonderful joys in life. She loved going to school and she is very excited about V-PreK in the fall. At graduation today she got to say the opening prayer, which she had volunteered for. She was so happy to hold the microphone and say the prayer all by herself. One of her teachers was beside her and was trying to help her close her prayer, when she preceded to tell her teacher that she was not done yet. She then went on to thank Heavenly Father for Santa Claus and that Santa would always be with us, oh dear. She was so precious and proud to perform for everyone. She did a great job telling everyone about her "family flag" (the pillow cases behind the first picture on the chalkboard). Every family was to make a family flag about there family, who is in their family, and their family theme or what their family means to them. You can see a little bit of our flag in the picture. It's the third one on the top with the big green hand print on it. Our flag had all of our hand prints on it, a flower drawn by Shelbie for each person, and three things that the kids came up with when I asked them what it means to be a part of our family. The three things that they said were: we love each other no matter what (I shortened this to unconditional love), obey, and together forever. I thought that that summed up a little about what it means to be in a family and was really proud of there answers. Below are a few pictures from the morning including Shelbie with her two teachers, Ms. Angela and Ms. Lisa.

Here's Shelbie waiting in the hallway patiently until her name is called to come an get her graduation certificate.

Above is Shelbie during one of her songs. She loves to sing and I catch her all the time singing away while she plays.